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Roland Schegg
April 1, 12:39 PM
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Gemäss einer Umfrage der Walliser Fachhochschule HES-SO setzen Schweizer Tourismusorganisationen mehr und mehr auf künstliche Intelligenz. Dies vor allem, um die Effizienz zu steigern und automatisierte Inhalte zu produzieren.
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Roland Schegg
April 1, 9:23 AM
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OTAs are at risk, as Google appears to be shaking up tours and activities listings, experts warn.
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Roland Schegg
March 31, 12:31 PM
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Le marketing automatisé repose sur une logique simple : envoyer le bon message, à la bonne personne, au bon moment… et de façon automatique. Les outils disponibles aujourd’hui permettent de cartographier le parcours du client (ou « lifecycle marketing »), pour ensuite déployer des communications adaptées selon sa phase : découverte, considération, décision ou fidélisation.
Par exemple, un touriste qui télécharge une brochure sur les sentiers de randonnée dans les Cantons-de-l’Est pourrait automatiquement recevoir un courriel quelques jours plus tard lui proposant un forfait hébergement + activités adapté à son profil. Si ce courriel est ouvert mais que la réservation ne se fait pas, un autre message de relance, plus ciblé ou incitatif, peut suivre. Ce genre de scénario se configure une fois… puis tourne tout seul.
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Roland Schegg
March 31, 11:45 AM
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By integrating its data systems with OpenAI’s LLMs, Booking.com delivers smarter search, faster support, and intent-driven travel experiences.
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Roland Schegg
March 31, 11:18 AM
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Vacation planning has come a long way since travel agents were commonly used. These days, we build our bucket lists from Instagram hotspots, TikTok trends and YouTube influencers.
But now, with artificial intelligence tools, travel planning is becoming much more personalized. Travelers are environmentally aware and seeking a deeper meaning from their adventures. AI can be a helpful travel assistant, guiding you in your choice of destination based on what you're looking to experience.
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Roland Schegg
March 28, 10:31 AM
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Brandwatch, éditeur de solutions pour la gestion, l’écoute et l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, rappelle dans son Guide complet du marketing 2025 que les professionnels du secteur font face à 3 grands challenges en 2025 :
L’adaptation aux changements de comportement des consommateurs, L’interprétation des insights, La saturation de contenus sur les médias sociaux.
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Roland Schegg
March 28, 10:13 AM
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Google has made key updates to its travel tools, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) to increase capabilities.
Google announced the changes in a blog post, which included in-text video demonstrations of five new features.
One of the more significant updates is a new price tracking feature for hotels—much like Google Flights—which is launching globally this week for both mobile and desktop browsers.
Google Maps is also being updated with a new “screenshot” list. When users enable the feature and give Google Maps access to their camera roll, Gemini automatically finds and highlights places on the map that it detected in saved screenshots.
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Roland Schegg
March 27, 2:12 AM
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Digitourism cherche à récompenser des projets digitaux exemplaires et réussis dans le domaine du tourisme en Valais ! Les projets recherchés devront inspirer les acteurs du tourisme valaisan et contribuer à les convaincre de l’importance de la digitalisation dans leur métier.
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Roland Schegg
March 27, 1:33 AM
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AI is rapidly evolving with new use cases for hospitality every day. We will be updating this article on a monthly basis to add new tools and applications that can help grow your business so bookmark and make sure to check this space for the most cutting edge applications.
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Roland Schegg
March 26, 10:12 AM
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Artificial intelligence-powered answer engine Perplexity has launched a feature in collaboration with Selfbook and Tripadvisor that enables users to book hotels natively on Perplexity.
Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, shared the news on LinkedIn. Srinivas included a video showcasing the new mode selection and a short, in-platform hotel booking process powered by Selfbook— a PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2023 that provides hotel booking and payment technology.
“We are introducing answer modes in Perplexity to make the core search product even better for verticals: travel, shopping, places, images, videos, jobs,” Srinivas said. “The next step is to get super precise [so] that you don't have to press on these tabs.”
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Roland Schegg
March 26, 4:31 AM
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The use of generative AI for planning travel and shopping has surged, with massive growth in traffic to U.S. travel and retail websites from AI sources since mid-2024. Adobe's data shows that consumers increasingly rely on AI for trip planning, product research, and decision-making - often resulting in more engaged site visits and growing comfort with completing purchases after interacting with AI tools.
Key takeaways
Travel planning via AI: Traffic from generative AI sources to travel-related sites rose 1,700% between July 2024 and February 2025. Positive user experience: 84% of AI users said it improved their travel planning. Top travel uses: Research, inspiration, food recommendations, transport planning, and itinerary creation top the list. Better engagement: AI-referred visitors show a 45% lower bounce rate on travel sites. Retail trends: AI-driven traffic to U.S. retail sites rose 1,300% during the 2024 holiday season and has continued to grow rapidly. Stronger site engagement: Retail visitors from AI sources browse more pages (+12%), stay longer (+8% engagement), and bounce less (-23%). Conversion gap narrowing: While AI visitors are still 9% less likely to buy, that’s a significant improvement from 43% in July 2024 — showing growing trust in AI-assisted shopping.
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Roland Schegg
March 24, 10:03 AM
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La popularité grandissante des médias sociaux et l’apparition d’un grand nombre d’influenceurs, qui à prime abord semblent être des personnes communes comme vous et moi, est hallucinante. De nos jours, les consommateurs sont enclins à acheter et à suivre les recommandations d’influenceurs dans des domaines totalement variés allant de la cuisine, aux jeux vidéo en passant par l’humour et les soins de beauté. Le phénomène n'épargne pas le milieu du tourisme, bien au contraire!
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Roland Schegg
March 21, 9:50 AM
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The European Commission has said Google-parent Alphabet has failed to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding Google Search.
The regulator has sent Alphabet, which was designated a gatekeeper under the act in July 2023, its preliminary findings that “certain features and functionalities of Google Search treat Alphabet’s own services more favorably compared to rival ones.”
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Roland Schegg
April 1, 11:23 AM
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Google is rolling out some new features to help users plan trips, including a tool to track hotel price changes.
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Roland Schegg
April 1, 7:34 AM
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Google is doubling down on AI-driven innovation in travel by launching new features across Search, Maps, and its Gemini AI platform. These enhancements aim to elevate the vacation planning experience by engaging users earlier in their decision-making journey. As travel remains a high-value vertical for Google, these updates also serve to strengthen its competitive position against emerging AI-based travel tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Key takeaways
AI-powered search expansion: Google's new features allow for broader, exploratory travel queries (e.g., “scenic road trip routes in California”) rather than purely transactional ones. This increases user engagement and query diversity, expanding monetization opportunities. Competitive pressure from AI platforms: Platforms like Perplexity and ChatGPT are gaining ground in travel planning. Perplexity, in particular, has partnered with TripAdvisor and Selfbook to offer hotel booking tools and plans to add flights and rental cars. Google Gemini’s strategic role: Gemini’s integration into travel tools positions Google to compete more effectively. It may even partner with OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) to develop agentic AI features like personalized itinerary building. OTAs fighting back with AI: Companies like Expedia and Booking.com are also developing AI travel tools, leveraging rich customer data and loyalty programs to maintain a competitive edge. Shift toward aggregator partnerships: AI travel platforms are currently favoring partnerships with travel aggregators over direct suppliers or OTAs, though that may shift as agentic AI capabilities expand.
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Roland Schegg
March 31, 12:00 PM
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Sans une bonne e-réputation, vous n’arriverez jamais à toucher de nouveaux clients en ligne. Oui, c’est un peu dur, mais c’est la réalité ! Et parmi les facteurs qui déterminent comment les prospects et clients perçoivent votre marque, il y a les avis Google. Les statistiques en témoignent : 95 % des consommateurs consultent des avis en […]
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Roland Schegg
March 31, 11:43 AM
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L’industrie du voyage a été témoin un changement révolutionnaire dans les stratégies de réservation hôtelière avec l'introduction de Technologie de suivi des prix basée sur l'IA. OneAir, une plateforme de voyage avancée connue pour tirer parti L'intelligence artificielle pour optimiser les coûts de déplacement, avait lancé Surveillance intelligente des prix des hôtels, un outil conçu pour aider les voyageurs obtenir les meilleurs tarifs sur leurs réservations d'hôtel sans intervention manuelle.
Une fonctionnalité basée sur l'IA promettait de transformer la façon dont les voyageurs géraient leurs réservations d'hôtel, en veillant à ne jamais payer trop cher pour un séjour. Les prix des hôtels fluctuent en moyenne 18 fois entre la réservation et l'enregistrementLa technologie de OneAir a été développée pour surveiller ces changements en permanence, identifier les baisses de prix et alerter les voyageurs pour qu'ils réservent à nouveau à des tarifs inférieurs.
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Roland Schegg
March 28, 10:32 AM
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Le mode vocal avancé de ChatGPT a été lancé fin septembre 2024. La fonctionnalité permet aux utilisateurs de dialoguer oralement avec l’IA, en offrant des conversations fluides et des capacités de raisonnement bluffantes héritées de ChatGPT. Un an plus tard, l’intégration de l’analyse vidéo a également représenté une prouesse de la part d’OpenAI.
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Roland Schegg
March 28, 10:17 AM
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Key takeaways
Hotel price tracking: A new global feature now allows users to track hotel prices, similar to Google Flights, on both mobile and desktop browsers. Maps screenshot list: Google Maps can now detect places from screenshots saved in your camera roll, using Gemini AI to highlight them on the map (iOS only for now, U.S. and English only). AI itinerary builder: AI Overviews help users plan trips by building regional or country-specific itineraries and exporting travel recommendations (English, U.S., mobile and desktop). Gems feature: Google’s custom AI assistants, called Gems, are now free and available to all users for tasks like trip planning, destination searching, and packing list creation. Multilingual Google Lens: Lens AI Overviews are expanding beyond English to support queries in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in most countries where the feature is available.
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Roland Schegg
March 28, 3:13 AM
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Users can now book hotels directly within the AI search engine Perplexity.
The announcement is a first among competitors like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. These platforms have shared hotel links for a while, but they’ve always redirected the users to other websites.
While glitchy at this very early stage — as are all the platforms and tools that these companies release — the leap to make it happen is what matters.
Skift performed some tests, outlined below.
The hotel booking and payment ability comes from a connection with the startup Selfbook. The company’s core business is a “one click to book” product that hotels can integrate into their websites. It allows consumers to quickly pay for rooms using several options, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, meant to prevent them from jumping through hoops and increase the rate of sales.
Perplexity and Selfbook were connected through investors, according to Selfbook CEO Khalid Meniri. The company most recently raised a series A round in two parts, totaling $40 million.
The in-app purchasing only applies to the roughly 140,000 hotels that Selfbook has in its supply. A small portion of those are direct connections with hotels, and the company also connects to distributors like Amadeus, Meniri said. Sometimes Selfbook is the merchant and sometimes it's not, according to terms of booking on Perplexity that are outlined on its website. Outside of Selfbook's supply, Perplexity
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Roland Schegg
March 27, 2:11 AM
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Digitourism sucht nach Auszeichnungen für vorbildlichen und erfolgreichen digitalen Projekten im Bereich des Tourismus im Wallis! Die gesuchten Projekte sollen die Akteure des Walliser Tourismus inspirieren und dazu beitragen, sie von der Bedeutung der Digitalisierung in ihrem Beruf zu überzeugen.
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Roland Schegg
March 27, 1:28 AM
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Les résultats sont désormais progressivement générés par de l’intelligence artificielle, des réponses structurées remplaçant les liens classiques. Un changement majeur destiné à répliquer à ChatGPT, et qui n’est pas sans risque
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Roland Schegg
March 26, 4:33 AM
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Booking.com has partnered with OpenAI to develop and refine its AI-powered trip planner, gradually enhancing the tool based on user feedback. While most users don't yet rely fully on AI for end-to-end travel planning, they increasingly turn to it during parts of the process, viewing it as a helpful co-pilot rather than a full replacement for traditional methods.
Key takeaways
Trip Planner focus: Booking.com is prioritizing its AI trip planner while exploring the potential of autonomous agents like OpenAI’s Operator, which can independently search and book services online.
AI as Co-Pilot: Users aren't fully handing over trip planning to AI yet, but are becoming more open to partial assistance.
Autonomous agents: The future may involve AI agents working together in the background to execute more complex travel planning tasks.
Action-based AI: Booking.com envisions its trip planner evolving from providing suggestions to taking actions on behalf of users.
Capturing intent: Understanding user intent remains a key challenge; Booking.com is experimenting with natural language tools like Smart Filter to address this.
Search evolution: The company sees AI enhancing—not replacing—traditional search, with generative AI and NLP offering more intuitive, conversational interactions.
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Roland Schegg
March 24, 11:39 AM
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Digitaler Neustart für den grössten Schweiz-Reiseveranstalter: Switzerland Travel Centre hat seinen Webauftritt komplett überarbeitet. Die neue Plattform setzt auf Benutzerfreundlichkeit, Echtzeitbuchung und soll internationale Gäste zur Schweizreise inspirieren.
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Roland Schegg
March 24, 10:02 AM
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Avec la panoplie d’outils d’IA générative qui ne cesse de croître, les entreprises touristiques font face à un choix crucial : lesquels méritent un investissement financier ? Pour les acteurs de l'hôtellerie, de la restauration, des événements et du transport qui jonglent avec des ressources limitées, la décision d'adopter une solution gratuite ou payante doit être stratégique.
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